The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| there are twenty-five sheep to every man,
woman and child.
IT is FOUND that the durability Of paper labels,
the name. etc, may be rendered far more GER
tain and reliable by the use of Chinese ink, the
label, after fixing being sized twice with a soll-
ton OF geiatine or good glue this to be followed
| by TWO coats OF copal varuish. Treated accord.
ing 10 this method it is proved that they will
continue to be serviceable for years.
THE marriage of an American or an English.
man TO Japanese woman is not SO rare an oc-
currence as the critics seem to think 4 mum.
Der or such marriages have occurred in the past
| ten or fifteen years A conspic .ous exampl5 is
that or one of the Secretaries of the American
Legation to Japanese girl of noble blood, and,
sun more striking, perhaps the marriage OF the
sister OF another attache of the American Lee
! CATION.
THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS is offered by Mr..
Ellis Lever, of England, as prize to the in
ventor of a miners safety lamp and it has set
| 10 work the wits of the ingenious. Sir Frederick
Abel will lecture on the subject during the
present month in England, and probably will
eXmblt specimens of lamps which the swan q
bdison Company are manufacturing for lage
colllery in England. Electricity, it is said.
is most likely to solve the question and
take the money prize first and lots of profit
after.
EDITORS are not ungrateful. The Jackson
CAiiss.) Stcord and Shield man thus requites one
canton, passed through the city Wednesday en-
route for B.rmingham, where she goes TO open
ladies' restaurant. All who ever ate at Miss
Dudley's establishment in this city, where her
rolls were perfect passionate poem, the fried
nam dream of delight, and the baked goose a
glimpse of paradise, will feel sure that both sue
cess and customers will come TO her In Birmlng-
ham,"
A TRAMP applied to the police for lodging re-
Gently at Warminster, Eng, and was placed in
a.. NJ. @ol,I,
locked him in forgot him, and it was not until
after forty hours Incarceration, without food or
warmth, that he was rescued. He was in an ex-
hausted condition. His cries for help were
heard, but thought by paSsers by to be the calls
OF crazy man, and it was not until some one
determined to speak to the police in his behalf
that his presence was made known to them. He
left town all right the next morning.
j. o. SANDERS, President of the Board of Edu-
cation of Knoxville, Ill., and a wealthy and
prominent church member, had Arthur Taylor
arrested on a charge of forging his (Taylor's)
fathers name to a note for S52. The charge
was not sustained, and Taylor Sued Sanders for
5000 damages. Then Sanders went to the
County Judge and confessed that in order to
harm Taylor he himself had forged the note
and tried to imprison him; and now his con-
science gave him rest. He was bound over
to answer the charge of forgery, and settled
with Taylor for $500.
AN ATTACK on a military train by Arabs in the
performance of the Paris Hippodrome ar Olym-
pia, is a remarkable feature. A line of railway
runs round the arena, upon which an undoubted
locomotive, with carriages, Steams along at
considerable speed. The train is filled with
French troops who respond to the fire of the
Arabs and an animated contest is carried on
for some time. Finally the Arabs are defeated,
and the wounded are carried to the ambulance
car of the train, and the locomotive gets up
steam and runs out of the arena. There is
pleasing dance by Arab girls and military exer-
cises by the men of the desert.
HARRY HoUsELEY was bound over TO keep the
peace at Heanor, Derbyshire, England, recently
for sending the following letter to Eliza Elliott,
a female Captain of the Salvation Army: Dear
Captain l just write to ask you favor
want to know If you will marry me- as have
taken fancy to you. If you don't agree with
my favor, it will be worse for you. l either
mean to marry you or murder you. If you say
no, | mean to do for you. so you can order your
coffin at once. know shall have to be hanged
for it, but don't want to go to hell by myself;
want you to go with me. Prepare to meet
your God Your comrade, Harry Houseley."
THE Bank of England doors are now so finely
balanced, that clerk, by pressing knob under
his desk, can close the outer doors instantly and
they can not be opened again except by special
process Thisds done to prevent the daring and
ingenious unemployed of the metropolis from
roDbing the bank. The bullion department of
this and other banks are nightly submerged for
several feet in water by the action of the ma
chinery. In some banks the bullion department
is connected with the managers sleeping room,
and an entrance cannot be effected without
shooting bolt in the dormitory, which in turn
sets in motion an alarm. If visitor during the
day should happento knock off one from pile
of half Sovereigns, the whole pile would disap-
pear, a pool OF water taking its place.
LEONARD JEROME, the founder of Jerome Park
begins to show his age in a slight forward inc-
nation of tue chest as he walks along Broadway,
along Fifth avenue to the Union Club. He
seems to be growing narrow-chested but dresses
in elegance. Although he has been the foremost
promoter of racing in America, and one of its
greatest patrons, Mr.. Jerome's experience has
not been satisfactory to his pocket He said to
friend the other day that it appeared to have
been his fortune to make race tracks from
which other men have reaped the benefit When
one OF his acquaintance was asked about Mr.
jerome S fortune he replied: He had a pretty
hard time of it in 1872 or 1873, but he made it up
by 1881 or 1882 to such an extent that he once
more came solidly to the front"
A CROWD of people were attracted to No. 329
Jay street, Brooklyn, Sunday hight by woman
hanging from tbird-story window She had
very few clothes on, and after hanging a
moment she fell to the ground, sustaining seri-
Gus injuries. Nobody in the house. which is
kept by Mrs Stoltz, who rents out rooms, knew
who the woman was. She fell from a room
rented the week before by Mrs. Mary Ann
v.
The other inmates of the house saw that the
woman came to the house early in the morning
and went TO Mrs Woods room. She was in.
toXicated and abused all who said ANYTHING to
her. Her language was very inelegalt lIrs
Woods returned IN the evening, but denied any
KNOWLEDGE of the woman. II was subsequently
learned that the woman was Kate Cummings. a
servant girl of No. 249 North Fifth street
Whether she fell accidentally from the window
or let herself fall purposely is not known She
was too intoxicated at the time to remember
GENERAL MASTER WORKMAN PowDERLY's fly-
ing visit to New York has caused much interest
and curiosity among Knights of Labor and
members of trades unions Conferences were
held by Mr.. PowderIy and the leading men in
District Assembly No. 40, but the utmost
secrecy was preserved as to what was said
1rades-union people say that Mr.. Powderly's
presence here IS in response to the alleged need
OF measures to prevent secesSions from the
Knights of Labor. The Grand Master Workman
however, insisted that his only mi sion to New
York was to obtain some important informa-
ZION 10 strengthen arguments that he is pre-
paring in favor of government postal tele-
graph system. He said that the knights of
Labor had decided to lay the matter of a govern
ment telegraph before the next Congress. and
al OF the influence of the order would be
brought to bear to secure a favorable considera-
to of the scheme. Mr.. Powdery said that h 9
p.a1s were made for trip to Europe next Nav.
He will 90 to Ireland.
THE interchangeable Henry Bereh intended 70
make it hot for the New York College of Physi.
clans and Surgeons that are contemplating the
vivisection of calf at that institution some
night this week, but he finds in looking into the